Rye Lions helps Camber seniors keep fit

Extend is a nationwide charity that provides gentle exercise to music for older people and for anyone with a disability. Their mission is to promote health, increase mobility and independence. improve strength, co-ordination and balance and to counteract loneliness and isolation.

Extend provides affordable exercise for people with a disability and the older person to challenge their fitness levels, from the very active to the not so active.

One of these classes is held at Camber Memorial Hall by Sally Liley. Organiser and secretary Vanessa Bowler approached Rye and District Lions Club asking for a donation and the Lions have contributed £200 to their funds.

Any older person who wishes to join the Camber club should contact Vanessa Bowler on 01797 229568 and the fee is £3 per session.

Rye Lions will be raising funds for many more local charities when they carry out their usual Christmas collections outside Jempsons, Peasmarsh on 20, 21 and 22 December and outside Jempsons Budgens, Rye on 22,23 and 24 December

The Extend charity has many hundreds of volunteers who have completed their teacher training courses enabling them to run exercise classes. There are some fifty teachers in the southern home counties alone and details of these can be found on their website at http://www.extend.org.uk/home .